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Parents of lost babies and potential of all kinds: come here to share the technicolour, the vividness, the despair, the heart-broken-open, the compassion we learn for others, having been through this mess — and see it reflected back at you, acknowledged and understood.
Thanks to photographer Xin Li and to artist Stephanie Sicore for their respective illustrations and photos.
I also have to wait for blood work. I'm O- and my husband is O+. The only reason they could possibly find for Charlotte being stillborn was Rh incompatibility. I had a lot of fetal blood in my system. I have been given Rhogam twice now. So we're just waiting to see if that did its job. I really want to start trying this month. I long to be pregnant again. I don't want to replace Charlotte, I just want to enjoy an entire pregnancy, a live baby being born and parent a living child. I never knew how much I truly wanted a baby until I lost my daughter.
I know I shouldn't get my hopes up about this month. I know it could take months for it to happen again. I was on Depo for years and went off Sept '09. We got pregnant in Dec and that was pretty amazing in itself. So I know I have to prepare myself for this to be a longer journey than I really want it to be.